Dog Lover's Mysteries Books in Order

In Holly Winter's first case, a murder at an obedience event turns a dog columnist and trainer into an amateur sleuth. With Rowdy, a stray malamute, newly in her life, Holly starts following the clues.

A missing wolf-dog, a murdered trainer, and a cruel scam pull Holly into the rougher side of the pet world. The deeper she digs into Cambridge's dog scene, the more dangerous the case becomes.

Holly is called in to help with Kimi, a fierce Alaskan malamute whose owners keep dying under suspicious circumstances. Taking the dog into her own home means solving the case before the danger follows her there.

A top obedience handler dies during a thunderstorm, and everyone assumes it was a terrible accident. Holly, helped by Rowdy, Kimi, and cousin Leah, suspects the training world is hiding something uglier.

A tip about a malamute puppy sends Holly into a mall pet shop she already distrusts. After the owner is murdered and another dog vanishes, Holly uncovers cruelty, fraud, and dangerous breeding secrets.

When a local veterinarian and a pampered pet disappear, Holly and Steve Delaney start digging through the Cambridge dog scene. The case leads from training-club politics to a crime that feels alarmingly personal.

A week at a fancy dog camp in Maine sounds like heaven for Holly and Rowdy. Then backstabbing, a threatening condolence card, and a suspicious death turn the retreat into a canine summer from hell.

Holly meets Ruffly, a hearing dog with a sharp mind and a worried owner, while questions still linger around an earlier death. When the dog begins reacting to something no one else notices, Holly follows the lead.

At the Alaskan Malamute National Specialty Show, Holly expects competition, gossip, and nerves, not murder. When an elderly judge is killed, the close-knit dog-show world becomes a very tight circle of suspects.

A bet to write about something other than dogs sends Holly into an old death that may never have been suicide. Her new subject quickly turns into a live mystery with fresh reasons for someone to stay quiet.

Holly's new book project on the grand old Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge dog shows opens doors to buried grudges and fresh danger. What starts as research soon becomes a murder investigation with a very long memory.

Rowdy's work as a therapy dog leads Holly to a Cambridge nursing home and a trio of sharp elderly Sherlock Holmes fans. When a relative of one resident is murdered, the group takes up the case.

After a fall on a mountain in Acadia leaves her with amnesia, Holly has to figure out who she is before she can solve anything else. A suspicious death nearby suggests her accident was no accident at all.

Still recovering from a serious head injury, Holly tries to settle back into ordinary life with her dogs. Then a difficult local dog owner is found dead, and Holly is pulled into another case she can't ignore.

Mob boss Enzio Guarini hires Holly to train his new elkhound puppy, a job that sounds risky before anyone dies. Once his right-hand man turns up dead, Holly is trapped between a vendetta and a very dangerous family.

Days before her wedding to veterinarian Steve Delaney, Holly gets drawn into a murder case involving women in the dog world. Juggling nerves, danger, and a possible serial killer makes this no ordinary trip to the altar.

Holly agrees to train Dolfo, an unruly designer dog owned by a pair of quirky therapists. When one of them dies in what looks like an overdose, Holly gets pulled into a messy family mystery.

Asked to help find Strike, a missing Siberian husky, Holly instead stumbles into a stranger case involving a dead woman who shares her name. The trail leads through identity theft, drugs, and the darker edges of the dog world.

Holly makes enemies when she turns away people who want to adopt rescued dogs. Anonymous threats, suspicious deaths, and trouble close to home force her to lean on Rowdy, Kimi, and Sammy.

Holly helps her pregnant friend Rita through a chaotic Cambridge wedding as feuding, secretive relatives crowd the house. When a break-in turns deadly, Holly trusts the dogs more than the people and starts sorting lies from facts.